Larry Lessig is a Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, a co-founder of Creative Commons, and an advocate for "Fixing Democracy First". We chat about #POTUS1 (an anti-corruption initiative that Larry is leading), updates to his pathe...Show More

Rob Reich is a professor of political science at Stanford University. We chat about his recent book, Just Giving, which outlines a political theory of philanthropy. We also dive into why he left GiveWell and how Effective Altruism should think about ...Show More

Tim Hwang, the director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative (a $26M AI ethics fund), and an old co-founder of the Awesome Foundation. We chat about the current politics around AI ethics, how movements in civil society can be co-...Show More

Kate Darling, a Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab and an Affiliate at the Harvard Berkman Center. We chat about the balances in regulating technology, the negative systemic impacts of our current gender roles, and how being a mother has helped...Show More

Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, the Founder and CEO of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the MIT, and Director of the Ethics Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. We chat about how we can embody ethical principles, meditation, an...Show More

Glen Weyl, the author of the book, Radical Markets and the founder of RadicalXChange (conference in Detroit March 22–24!). We chat about social innovation, funding civil society with Liberal Radicalism, and the powerful cultural aspects of the blockc...Show More

Joi Ito, the Director of the MIT Media Lab (among many things). We chat about the central question of his PhD thesis, "How can we understand and effectively intervene in interconnected complex adaptive systems?" and then apply that to cryptocurrency....Show More

Renee DiResta, Director of Research at cybersecurity company New Knowledge. (Among many other things.) We chat about her recent report on Russia's disinformation campaign and our weaponized information ecosystem more broadly.

Tadge Dryja, a research scientist at DCI who co-invented the Lightning Network. We chat about his current research (uTreeXO, a dynamic accumulator for Bitcoin state) and discuss non-fork ways to bootstrap upgrades to a network (a bridge node for uTre...Show More

Arthur Brock, the founder and acting CEO of Holochain. We chat about the shift from nouns to verbs and how Holochain's agent-centric architecture works.
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Richard Burton, the co-founder of Balance, a UX and financial services-focused crypto wallet. We chat about wallet standards, how ETH/EOS fail, and how crypto can help us escape the scarcity mindset.
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Lawrence Lundy-Bryan, a partner and the Director of Research at Outlier Ventures. We chat about his Convergence Theory and an evolutionary perspective on competitive capital allocation.
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Ethan Zuckerman, the director for MIT's Center for Civic Media. We chat about his skepticism of crypto social networks and the historical co-evolution of information and governance.
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Eric Meltzer, a Partner at INBlockchain - China's largest blockchain focused fund, and the curator of Proof of Work, a newsletter that highlights the progress of top projects. We chat about the Asian crypto scene, investing as a crypto VC, and his ne...Show More

Taylor Pearson, the author of EndOfJobs and an editor-at-large for Ribbon Farm. We chat about a wide variety of subjects including the Blockchain Individual and how crypto allows us to no longer see like a state.
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Yaneer Bar-Yam, a complexity scientist and the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute. We chat about frameworks for understanding complexity and then using those frameworks on crypto.
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Ryan John King, the CEO and co-founder of the FOAM protocol. We chat about a variety of fascinating subjects including their new crypto-spatial coordinate standard, multi-dimensional block reward functions, and using objective TCRs as a 1D oracle for...Show More

Primavera De Filippi, the co-author of Blockchain and the Law, an advisor for DAOStack, a faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center, and a permanent researcher at Paris’ National Center of Scientific Research. We chat about her new book, ap...Show More

Kim-Mai Cutler and Garry Tan, partners at Initialized Capital, the first seed investor in Coinbase. We chat about techno-utopianism vs. skepticism, venture capital as a system, why people are leaving SF, and #BUIDL as a powerful meme.
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Sandra Ro, the COO and Managing Parter of UWINCorp. We dive into her social impact work with UWINCorp, why they’re using a blockchain, and her experience with the institutionalization of Wall St.
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My first live interview! At University of Colorado, I interviewed Ryan Martens, the co-founder and CTO of Rally Technologies. We dive into his work with ImpactHub, TheoryU, and Communities for Change. Then we explore my macro phase shift work with ET...Show More

Robin Hanson, the author of Elephant in the Brain and the creator of Futarchy. We dive into Elephant in the Brain and explore norms, motives, signaling, Ribbon Farm’s “Weaponized Sacredness” and mechanism design.
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Harrison Hines, the head of ConsenSys’ Token Foundry. We chat about where the token market will go in 2018 and tips for writing whitepapers (Harrison has read thousands).
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Pia Mancini, the founder of OpenCollective and DemocracyEarth. We chat about the world after nation-states, New Power, evolution vs. revolution, and talking with the “other side”.
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Jake Brukhman, the Managing Partner at Coinfund, a blockchain-based investment fund. We chat about Fat Protocols, Cryptokitties, and Social Choice Theory.
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Erik Voorhees, the founder of Shapeshift. We chat about Bitcoin governance and how to solve it through better protocols for sense-making. We play devil’s advocate a lot in the conversation and talk about a blockchain-based Esperanto optimized for cur...Show More

Kavita Gupta, the Founding Managing Parter of ConsenSys Ventures, a $50M fund that invests in the Ethereum ecosystem. We chat about an omni-considerate co-evolution mindset and the various companies ConsenSys Ventures has invested in.
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Vignesh Sundaresan, a co-founder of Lendroid, a decentralized margin trading platform built on Ethereum. We chat about risk, building on the 0x ecosystem, and Vignesh’s basic income experiments as an example of giving back through the CryptoPledge.
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Brayton Williams, a co-founder at BoostVC, an accelerator that focuses on blockchain technology. We chat about the crypto VC landscape, the continued scarcity of trust, and the liquidity for how blockchain founders allocate their time.
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Trent McConaghy, the CTO and co-founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data substrate (and protocol!) for data marketplaces. We chat cryptoeconomic primitives like Curation Markets and Token-Curated Registries and Trent’s proposed system to map o...Show More

Arthur Breitman, the co-founder of tez0s, a smart contract protocol with formal verification and a self-amending ledger. We chat about function programming as a mental model and discuss the complexities of human governance.
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Nadav Hollander, the co-founder of Dharma Protocol, a decentralized lending protocol. We break down the protocol itself, chat about YC for crypto startups, and discuss why Dharma isn’t doing a token sale. This is the first episode in a series about s...Show More

Julie Penner (a Managing Director of Techstars Boulder who read 100 books this year) chats about the loop between lean processes + leadership, the power of vulnerability-based trust, and “building your company from the inside out”. Enjoy!
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Luis Cuende (a co-founder of Aragon) and I chat about projects in the Ethereum Commons, crypto-millennials, and new kinds of trust. Give it a listen if you’re into early-stage commonism, generational dynamics, or breaking down abstract concepts like ...Show More

Taylor Monahan (a co-founder of MyEtherWallet) and I chat about security, the Parity exploit, audits, bounties, the tradeoffs in reusing code, and how to deal with scams/phishers.
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Nick Johnson (from the Ethereum Foundation) and I dive into the Ethereum Name Service, a parallel naming service to DNS. We chat about the cryptographic proofs allowed by Metropolis, mapping DNS into ENS, the tradeoffs of squatting governance, and mo...Show More

I interview Jordan Leigh, a developer at ConsenSys and an Ethereum educational content creator at Decypher Media. We chat about the zeitgeist surrounding Devcon3, the massive difference a year makes between Devcon2 and Devcon3, and even discuss some ...Show More

We kick off Season 1 by interviewing Albert Wenger, a managing parter at Union Square Ventures and the author of World After Capital. It's also the first episode in Series A: Macro Systems.
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We chat with Kirk Dameron from ConsenSys at Denver Startup Week, diving into ConsenSys’ many initiatives, how decentralized companies operate, and a high-level overview of how Ethereum plans to scale.
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In this keynote fireside chat with Erik Voorhees at Denver Startup Week, we “get philosophical” and dive into the societal and political implications of blockchain. This interview was inspired by Ryan Shea’s interview of Naval Ravikant. It’s also the...Show More

We're diving into our new mini-series "Leveraging the Crowd: How Blockchain Companies are Building Community". (Heavily influenced by the book Machine, Platform, Crowd.) We’ll look at how companies like Aragon, Status, ConsenSys, BoostVC, and others ...Show More

This video is a response to William Macaskill’s post on the “key idea of EA Global”, Doing Good Together. I think that blockchain could be a great way to achieve Will’s ends.
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We focus on Blockchain for Social Good by exploring how blockchain impacts charity with Rhodri Davies. Rhodri is the program director of Giving Thought, a department at the Charities Aid Foundation that focuses on future-facing policy work within phi...Show More

We dive into Platform Cooperativism with Nathan Schneider, the leader of the platform cooperativism movement and editor of the main book on the subject, Ours to Hack and to Own. In my opinion, many more people in the blockchain space should be aware ...Show More

In podcast episode #6 of Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future, we focus on the Attention Economy by diving into Curation Markets with Simon de la Rouviere, the Engineer of Societies at ConsenSys and a lead at Ujo Music. Show notes here: http://bit.l...Show More

In this podcast, we dive into the Attention Economy with Ryan X Charles, the co-founder of Yours.org, a blockchain-based content platform that uses LiteCoin to implement “Medium with a Paywall”. Show notes here: http://bit.ly/2vHmn1A
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In this podcast, we dive into a subset of the Attention Economy, namely the “output” of the Attention Economy—the Future of Work. We talk with Naveen Mishra, the co-founder of crowdraising.co, a blockchain-based platform for pledging time, not money....Show More